Duffcastle

24 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Duffcastle, from 1,012 m² to 130,805 m² (13.08 ha, 32.32 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 11 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Duffcastle in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 8 Jun 2026Conditional

  of domestic green house/garden shed and alterations to plans, elevations & roof of existing dormer dwelling & garage, site layout and boundaries

  Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2660319

• 29 Sept 2024Conditional

  to RETAIN demolitions to an existing single storey dwelling comprising porch and external wall openings. Also, PERMISSION sought for the erection of single storey extensions and alterations to existing dwelling elevations, associated site services upgrades and development works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2460458

• 21 Sept 2024N/a

  to retain demolitions to an existing single storey dwelling comprising porch and external wall openings. Also, permission sought for the erection of single storey extensions and alterations to existing dwelling elevations, associated site services upgrades and development works

  Retention · Cavan County Council, 2460448

• 25 Jun 2024N/a

  for a single storey extensions to a single storey dwelling and associated site services upgrades and development works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 2460288

• 12 Dec 2022Refused

  for (a) change of use of agricultural land for use for field archery (b) construction of a detached dormer style archery club room building (c) to form new vehicular entrance, driveway and associated car park (d) together with all associated site works including the installation of foul water storage tank

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 22514

• 27 May 2021Conditional

  for development consisting of a kitchen/diner extension (25sqm) to the side of our existing dwelling and a utility room extension (7.4sqm) to the rear and all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 21320

• 13 Mar 2019Conditional

  for development consisting of (1) install proprietary wastewater treatment system and percolation area, (2) decommission existing septic tank and percolation area and (3) complete all ancillary site works

  Permission, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 1987

• 16 Aug 2017Conditional

  to retain (1) one storey extension to rear of existing one storey type dwelling incorporating sanitary and living accommodation (2) domestic storage shed to rear of site (3) revised site layout and all ancillary site works

  Retention, 1 home · Cavan County Council, 17359

• 28 Apr 2017Conditional

  to a) decommission 1 no. existing pig house and construct 2 no. replacement pig houses, and, b) retain 2 no. existing pig houses, 2 no. general purpose stores and 1 no. office, together with all ancillary structures and all associated site works arising from the above development

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 17172

• 12 Jan 2017N/a

  to (a) decommission 1 no. existing pig house and construct 2 no. replacement pig houses, and (b) retain 2 no. existing pig houses, 2 no. general purpose stores and 1 no. office, together with all ancillary structures and all associated site works arising from the above development

  Permission · Cavan County Council, 178

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Duffcastle.

Recorded monuments

• CV032-021 Megalithic tomb - portal tomb
  Description

  Situated on the side of a ridge. This E-facing chamber is 2m long. The southern of two large stones at the entrance is a portal-stone, 1.8m high. The other, 1.4m high, appears to be a doorstone. The northern portal-stone is missing. Single stones form the sides of the chamber. The northern is 1m high and the southern, now collapsed inwards, was of like height. The backstone, 1.5m high, leans inwards. The front end of a great roofstone rests on the portal-stone but its opposite end has tilted into the chamber. Two stones at the inner end of the collapsed sidestone are of uncertain origin. (de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 134, No. 36) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 22 December 2008 See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume III. Counties Galway, Roscommon, Leitrim, Longford, Westmeath, Laoighis, Offaly, Kildare, Cavan. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1972).

• CV032-022 Bawn
  Description

  A castle at Doncaslan (Duffcastle) in Crosserlough parish is marked on the Down Survey (1656-8) map of County Cavan. for which see this web-page accessed on 18/04/2016 http://downsurvey.tcd.ie/down-survey-maps.php#c=Cavan This location is depicted as a subrectangular area (dims c. 30m N-S; c. 25m E-W) and described as a 'Fort' on OS Fair Plan and the OS 1836 and 1876 eds. Situated on E shoulder of a natural scarp. No feature is visible at ground level. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cavan' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1995). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of revision: 18 April 2016

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Duffcastle.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

Radon

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Duffcastle.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

No address of the register names Duffcastle with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Cavan.

Name

Duffcastle

Area

739,849 m² (73.98 ha, 182.82 acres)

Civil parish

Crosserlough, and its townlands

Barony

Castlerahan

Electoral division

Graddum, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Graddum electoral division: 589 people in 206 households; 87% of households own their home; 35% of homes were built since 2001; 7% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 2% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Crosserlough, Cullow, Drumscruddan, Kiffagh, Latnadronagh

Placenames

Duffcastle on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address; old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.